** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => In Progress
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low => Medium
** Also affects: unity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: unity
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: unity
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: unity
Assignee: (unassigned) => Christopher Townsend (townsend)
** Changed in: unity
Milestone: None => 7.2.0
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263786
Title:
Nonsense behavior of scrollwheel over Launcher
Status in Unity:
In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce:
- move the mouse cursor over the launcher
- move it over the icon of an application that has one and only one window
open that is not on front
- move the scrollwheel of the mouse in any direction
Expected behavior: NOTHING.
Ovserved behavior: the window, corresponding to the icon over which
the mouse cursor is, is brought to front; and this cannot be reversed
easily.
Trying it with an icon of an application that has two or more windows open
reveals "why" this happens:
- move the mouse cursor over the Launcher over an icon of an application that
has two or more windows open
- move the scrollwheel
This will switch between windows of that application, so scrolling up or down
will bring one or another window (of that same application) to front.
This is already annoying, like many other abuses of the scrollwheel that
unfortunately have become widespread (such as: moving the scrollwheel while
keeping the cursor over a tab will switch among tabs in applications that use
tabs).
But even if we accept the annoying
use-the-scrollwheel-for-everything-at-all-costs fashion, only two behaviors
would make sense in this case:
Option A:
- similar to current behavior (switch between windows of an application)
but ONLY IF there are more than one window of that application open AND one of
those window is already focused.
Or option B:
- whenever the scrollwheel is on the launcher, scrolling would switch among
ALL existing windows
Both option A and B would be consistent with the widespread
scrollwheel abuse, but would at least make sense, and an unintentional
movement of the scrollwheel causing an undesired window switching
could always be reverted by a countermovement of the scrollwheel in
the opposite direction.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Mon Dec 23 22:45:54 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (73 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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